Here is the twelfth of Martin Springett's ideas for artwork for the next album, 'Strange Kingdom'.
Martin says:
"
What she is pointing at looks uncomfortably like Coronavirus,
but is in fact, a seed like being called a Cobble Spot. Another escapee image
from The Gardening Club graphic novel, this is a distant relative of Lady Emily
Stirling (guardian of singing plants) who resides conveniently in another
dimension. Cobble Spots are air borne seeds, who choose a host to alight on,
then grow into a plant that will resemble the
host in various intriguing ways. In our dimension this is rather like dog
owners who resemble their dogs, in looks or temperament. (Does anyone resemble
their cats?) The Spots don't need a garden, just a musical host who can sing to
them three times a day, preferably a mixed diet of classical, popular and
avant-garde. These are high expectations indeed, and yet, many a host who until
the time the spot appeared, had been tone deaf, became endowed with extraordinary
musical powers. This is one of the wonders of the, you know, Universe. See -
Cobble Spots - Homunculus Or Philanthropist? by James Grabknee, U Of Pee Culiar
Press, 1969. Also - I Was A Talentless Rube Until I Was Spotted, by Cynthia
Staghorn, Neat Heap Publishers, 1907."
No comments:
Post a Comment